Re: Deleted Desktop directory

[Todd Thomas <toddt dimensional com>]

On Fri, 2005-01-21 at 14:18 -0700, Todd Thomas wrote:
> On Fri, 2005-01-21 at 15:52 -0500, Sean Middleditch wrote:
> > Sounds like Nautilus isn't running.
> 
> Ah, that's exactly right. I had also noticed there was no background
> image showing, but the significance of that clue didn't register. I
> thought maybe I had changed it and forgotten.
> 
> Unfortunately, I can't duplicate this problem now. I deleted ~/Desktop
> again, but Nautilus stayed up.

Actually, the deletion of ~/Desktop may be a red herring as far as
Nautilus is concerned. The machine had been up for a long time, and I
don't remember noticing the background image going away right at the
moment of deletion, which should have been apparent. It's entirely
possible that Nautilus had died days ago, and I never restarted it. When
I realized I had deleted ~/Desktop, I naturally looked at the desktop to
see what was there. But the icons may have been missing for some time. I
mostly use Terminal and Firefox on this machine, so I wouldn't have
noticed the lack of Nautilus.

Sorry for the distraction.

TT